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Fergusson, Robert

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Fergusson, Robert (1750–1774), poet, was born on 5 September 1750 in the Cap-and-Feather Close (now demolished), off the High Street, Edinburgh, the fourth of the five children of William Fergusson (1714–1767), a clerk from Tarland in Aberdeenshire, and his wife, Elizabeth Forbes (...

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